Professional Web Design: Techniques and Templates, 5th Edition

If you are a web designer, or are on your way to becoming one, you know the importance of staying up-to-date with the latest tools, techniques, and trends of the business. Learning CSS technology and continually improving your design and developer skills are essential elements of your success. In this fifth edition of PROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGN: TECHNIQUES AND TEMPLATES, popular author and web developer Clint Eccher teaches beginning to intermediate web designers, through case studies and helpful tips and techniques, how to create attractive, fast, and efficient websites. In addition to the helpful instruction, readers will also have access to more than 200 completely customizable design templates. Eccher covers essential topics, from understanding how web development works today to working with clients, enhancing usability, understanding graphics, and much more. The included case studies cover a variety of requirements and design types. Get up to speed, and up to date, with modern web design–get PROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGN: TECHNIQUES AND TEMPLATES, FIFTH EDITION.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Overview of Web Development Today
Chapter 2 Designing for the Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 3 Things to Consider Before Beginning
Chapter 4 Enhancing Usability
Chapter 5 Gathering Requirements and Creating a Comp
Chapter 6 What Is Needed to Build Mortised Sites
Chapter 7 Understanding Graphics
Chapter 8 Creating CSS Designs
Chapter 9 Case Study: Low-Content CSS Design
Chapter 10 Case Study: Medium-Content CSS Design
Chapter 11 Case Study: High-Content CSS Design
Chapter 12 Case Study: Full-Height Three-Column Layout
Chapter 13 Case Study: Background-Based Design
Chapter 14 Case Study: A CSS Form
Chapter 15 Tips and Techniques
Chapter 16 Customizing the Designs Included in This Book
Chapter 17 Templates Included Online